{"id":256130,"date":"2021-05-21T20:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-weighs-in-on-bill-gates-affair\/"},"modified":"2021-05-21T20:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:33:34","slug":"microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-weighs-in-on-bill-gates-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-weighs-in-on-bill-gates-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"#Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighs in on Bill Gates affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighs in on Bill Gates affair<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Microsoft\u2019s CEO has finally weighed in on reports that the tech giant\u2019s co-founder Bill Gates had an affair with an employee two decades ago \u2014 and insists that the company\u2019s culture has changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Microsoft of 2021 is very different from the Microsoft of 2000,\u201d Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNBC on Friday<\/a>, noting that Microsoft has had a policy requiring employees to disclose office relationships since 2006.\u00a0\u201cAnyone can raise any issue, even an issue from 20 years ago, we will investigate it, take action to the satisfaction of the person who has raised it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gates had an affair with a female employee in the year 2000, Microsoft has acknowledged. The tryst reportedly lasted five years, and the company\u2019s board allegedly became aware of the relationship in 2019 and opened an investigation.<\/p>\n

Last year, Gates left the board before the full board could make a decision on the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power dynamic in the workplace is not something that needs to \u2014 can be abused in any form,\u201d added Nadella, who has served as CEO since 2014. \u201cThe most important thing is for us to make sure that everybody\u2019s comfortable in being able to raise any issues they see and for us to be able to fully investigate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bill and Melinda Gates announced earlier this month that they are divorcing.<\/figcaption>
Elaine Thompson\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gates has also come under fire in recent weeks for his app<\/a>arently close relationship with serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Their friendship reportedly angered his wife, Melinda Gates, and contributed to their decision to divorce, which the couple announced earlier in May.<\/p>\n

Gates served as Microsoft CEO until 2000 and remained on the board until last year.<\/p>\n

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Bill and Melinda Gates in the late 1990s announcing the formation of a charitable effort to help get vaccines to children in the developing world.<\/figcaption>
Jeff Christensen\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Friday\u2019s television appearance, Nadella insisted that Microsoft\u2019s current culture is no longer the same as during the Gates era.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no forced arbitrations, so I feel that we have created an environment that allows us to really drive that everyday improvement in our diversity and inclusion culture,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n